White v. Hesse

MARTIN, Chief Justice.

An appeal from an order denying appellant’s motion for a preliminary injunction and granting the motion of appellees to dismiss the bill of complaint.

The bill alleges that the plaintiff (now the appellant) is the owner of a large number of automatic vending machines constructed especially for the automatic vending of *1019candy mints and designed to be stationed in public places in the District of Columbia; that in the operation of such a machine the customer places a niekle coin in a slot and automatically receives in return an ordinary 5-eent package of candy mints. In…